By special correspondent.
Derna, 14 March 2014:
Four men, said to be Islamists, were shot dead last night when gunmen attacked . . .[restrict]a farm house near Derna where they were staying. Two of their colleagues were also seriously wounded in the attack, sources in Derna say. They were taken to the town’s Al-Harish Hospital, where one of them is said to be in a critical condition.
The attack took place in the Fataieh area east of Derna.
The four who died have been named as Mohammed Saifaddin Al-Qadi, Ghassan Abubakr Al-Tashani, Abdullah Al-Fakhri and Juma Al-Awami. Two had been shot in the head.
Although Islamists, it has not been disclosed if the victims were members of Ansar Al-Sharia or Salfists or one of the other Islamic groups operating in the area such as the Army of the Islamic State of Libya.
There have been a number of attacks and killings of Islamists in the area and earlier this month, an unknown group in Benghazi published a list of Islamists it said it would execute.
Yesterday, in the same Fataieh area, four bodies were found, one of them that of a child. All had been shot.
Because of decomposition, the only one to have been identified so far is that of a Syrian who owned a camera shop in the town and who had been missing for more than three days.
According to investigators, the execution-style killings are thought to have occurred in the same place the bodies were found.
The motive for the slayings in unknown. Nor it is known if the two incidents are related.
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